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How to improve your immune system and heal Palmoplantar Pustulosis through diet.

8/29/2015

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Palmoplantar Pustulosis Diet
When I was diagnosed with Palmoplantar Pustulosis, I was determine to find a way to cure myself. There was no way I could accept life, living with a chronic skin disease which was disabling me.

I started to do a lot of research in to nutrition and how to boost and repair a dysfunctional immune system naturally. I discovered the key to improve your health, is basically to start with the gut or the flora which resides there. Your Gut health literally affects your entire body and it's the part of your body where most of the vitamins and minerals are absorbed which are needed for your immune cells to work properly. The only way to do this is to eat a diet containing all the nutrients you body (cells) so badly need to function and to remove the bad stuff from your diet that causes inflammation and don’t have any nutritional value.
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I discuss this subject more in depth in my book. 

But what does healing your gut actually mean?

Not a lot of people are aware of this but the gut is our biggest immune centre. With an unbalance gut it is just matter of time before disease enters your life. There are many factors to take in to account and why we end up with a non functional immune system resulting in an autoimmune disease.

The most important factor are the state of the gut (gastrointestinal tract). Scientist has just recently figured out the importance of our gut plays in our overall well being. These so called microbioms ( the bacteria living in our gut) also have over a hundred more genes compared to the human body cells genetic set-up. Our bodies are quite simply a host environment for bacteria. They use us for their own purposes and only care for their own well being. The molecules produced by the DNA of these bacteria have significant impact on our overall health. The gut flora determines the quality of the immune system and how much vitamins and minerals the cells absorb. The gut flora also communicates to the cells in the immune system which microbioms should be ignored and which ones should be attacked. In the intestines you will also find a large nervous system with equally many nerve cells as the spinal chord. The central vagus nerve is wandering from the intestine and goes all the way up to connect to the brain. 


The problem is most people never think about what’s happening with what they put in their mouth and what ends up in their tummy. It doesn't matter if it’s food, alcohol, drugs or vitamins. The fact is everything we digest has to go through an extensive metabolic process. Everything gets broken down to tiny components and are integrated with hormones, bacteria and cells to a molecular level. All of this affect each other and nothing goes passed by unnoticed. By changing our diets and the use of pre-and probiotics we can make sure we have a healthy gut flora where the good bacteria can flourish.
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​We are only as healthy as our gut bacteria or as the father of medicine Hippocrates said


 “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ​
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What causes an impaired gut flora?

1. A diet maintaining manly junk and processed foods and a lot of sugar. These diets poor in nutrients makes all the wrong bacteria and yeast grow in the gut, leading to a damaged eco system.

2. Antibiotic overuse. 

3.Infections and gut imbalances. These include small intestinal bacteria overgrowth (SIBO), yeast overgrowth and parasites.

4.Inadequate digestive enzymes. Stress, acid-blocking medications and zinc deficiencies can all contribute to lack of adequate digestive enzyme function.

5.Stress. Chronic stress alters your gut nervous system, creating a leaky gut and changing the normal bacteria in the gut

But what should you eat?

It fairly simple and not that difficult to be honest!
Just eat the same things like your Granny and Granddad used to eat when they were young (or like their parents depending how old you are). I believe the only way to maintain healthy and to get well is to eat as much local and real food as possible. Local food varies hugely depending on where in the world you live. If you follow some of the main psoriasis forums you probably been reading about some people ended up in remission successfully by following Dr. Pagano's book Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative or about people going all vegan resulting in remission from disease. Personally I think this way of eating might be a bit extreme, but whatever works, just do it. 

When I began healing from PPP I started with cutting out processed/packaged food, sugar, fizzy drinks and gluten. I made sure everything I ate was loaded with vitamins, minerals and enzymes. This was fairly simple because when just eating traditional Swedish food (the country where I'm from and live), I automatically ate an healthy diet which is naturally the most optimal way to eat for me as a swede. the reason is my forefathers have been eating similar things for years and genetically that's what my body thrives on. So in my case that meant a lot of vegetables, fat and meat.

My diet during my healing process!

Even if you now understand what needs to be done to heal from PPP, The question is how you do it? It might seem overwhelming at first to eliminate certain foods you are used to. As what do you eat instead of bread? What if you are craving sugar? What if you feel there's no time to cook? 
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To be able to heal from Palmoplantar Pustulosis or any other autoimmune disease, you need to be committed! If you feel there's no time, make the time, try to stay away from social media sites such as Facebook and cut down on watching television shows and other time filling activities. Learn how to cook a few dishes and rotate them. I tend to cook and eat the same food for a whole week as it's convenient and it saves me time doing the shopping and think about what to cook for the next day. Below is what I would eat a typical day.

Morning

Fist thing: A green Juice or a big glas of water
Supplements: D3+K2, Probiotics, Zinc, Chlorella, clorestal

Breakfast: A boiled egg (or two) plus an avocado or a banana.

Snack: An apple or an orange

Afternoon

Lunch: Local traditional food, in Sweden that would be Potatoes, meat, fish, gravy with loads of vegetables including fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut (natural probiotics). (no processed food, no sugar, nor gluten). If you're a vegetarian, substitute the meat with mushrooms or Halloumi cheese. Eat as much as you want until you're full.

Snack: An apple or some other fruit.

Evening

Dinner: Same as lunch, the smart thing is to cook plenty for dinner so there are leftovers for tomorrow's lunch.

After dinner try not to eat anything else, let your stomach rest (fast) and recover. If you get hungry between meals drink water or green tea to fill you up, if you're starving snack on vegetables. The thing is if you had enough good food full of vitamins, minerals and fat for lunch/dinner you shouldn't feel hungry in the evening.

If you haven't watched the channel 4 documentary "The Worlds Best Diet" I highly recommend you do so. The presenters travels around the world to 50 different countries, listing the worlds worst and best diets starting with the country with the worst diet and ending with the country with the best diet. Apart from the conclusion of this documentary it's also nice to get an insight how people live and around the world.

****** UPDATE 2020: This documentary is not longer available on YouTube - to watch it you have to see it on Amazon Prime *****

Tell me about what you eat? Do you follow a special diet?

​Åsa Kärrman
28 Comments
wendy chapman
1/1/2017 06:40:43 pm

Hello I have bought your 'how to treat PPP 'book but find the chart of food very difficult to read. Is this available anywhere?

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Åsa link
1/1/2017 07:45:54 pm

Hi Wendy,

Thanks for getting a copy of my book!

Send me an email to asakarrman@gmail.com and I will email you the chart as a .pdf where you can zoom in and out.

Hopefully that will make it easier and clearer to read,

Thank you,

Åsa

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Laurie Macdonald
6/28/2021 06:43:17 pm

I too have just received my new edition hoping the chart would be more readable. Could you please send me an email with the chart? I have been suffering since March 2017. Just about to start PUVA (38 treatments 1st time)for the second time bur this time with with Acetretin . Completely fed up.
Thank you,
Laurie

Åsa
6/28/2021 09:28:15 pm

Hi Laurie,

Please send me an email to asakarrman@gmail.com and I will send you a copy of the chart. You could also download here on the website directly by typing in your email address here on this page under healing diets. Then you will get it instantly :)
Kind Regards,
Åsa

Mila
7/31/2017 04:46:42 am

My mom was diagnosed with ppp recently she got blisters filled with puss on her hands nothing on feet. She has a strong back pain and doctors told her it's related to ppp. Do you have back pain how you cope up.

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Åsa Well-Healed link
8/14/2017 06:06:15 pm

Hi Mila,

I'm sorry to hear about your Mother.

I had a bit of a back pain (not too bad) when I was suffering from PPP. But I did have a very painful jaw and a pain in the joint of my index finger.

It is very common and I would recommend you reading my blog post about the issue by copying the link below and paste it to your browser, where I write about the issue.

http://www.well-healed.com/-palmoplantar-pustulosis-blog/palmoplantar-pustulosis-and-arthritis

There are ways to reverse this disease naturally, and I hope your Mother gets better soon,

All the best,

Åsa

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Boke Kaan
8/21/2017 02:30:27 pm

Hi Asa,

I am suffering of PPP from 2008. It started right after my femoral fracture recovery period. I bought your book and just started to read. I have two simple questions for you:

1. Did you recognize any post affects of implants like inter modular rode or metals in the body what ignites the PPP?

2. I did not come to that point but what I understood, you are also advising some natural animal products. I recently watched another documentary named "What the health" which takes the healthy living to the next step and strongly recommending to cut all animal related products. I have just shift to vegan last 20 days and really looking for a progress in the quality of my health. What do you think on vegan life style and the cure?

Best Regards,

Kaan

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Åsa Well-Healed link
8/21/2017 09:12:15 pm

Hi Kaan,

Thanks for finding and contacting me, and for getting my book :)

Suffering from PPP since 2008 is a very long time and I feel your pain.

To answer your questions, I haven't had an experience with implants myself so I can't really answer that. But when I was suffering with palmoplantar pustulosis, I did have a wisdom tooth extracted and my tonsils taken out. After both those intervention my PPP outbreaks got so bad, a day after I had my tooth taken out, hundreds of new blisters occurred on the palm of my hand and the sole of my foot and same thing happened when I got my tonsils taken out. My conclusion is when you do have any type of surgery it will affect the already poor immune system and will more likely worsen your PPP while the body is focusing on healing the part where you had your surgical intervention.

When it comes to diets you will have to find something that works for you. My general stand on diets is to eat local traditional food, but exclude the type of foods I list in my book which is bad for you such as gluten, sugar, processed food etc... I think a vegan diet is great as long as it's a varied diet which contains all the vitamins and minerals your body need. The focus should be on improving and boost your immune system by removing everything that is bad for your body (sugar, gluten, processed food, less alcohol) and add everything that is good for you (loads of fruit and veg). One of my readers went all vegan during his healing process to eventually transfer to only eat raw food. He is now clear from his PPP and other health issues he had.
Do read my whole book where I write a lot more on the subject :)

Kaan, I wish you all the best on your healing journey, please do keep in contact and let me know how you're getting on.

All the best,

Åsa

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Furqan Sehgal
4/2/2018 10:42:55 am

Hi Asa,
i am suffering a ppp on my hand and my feet sole in 2017.
so i need a proper diet plan to recover ppp. and i am a smoker may that y i suffer this problem.

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Åsa Well-Healed link
4/25/2018 06:22:10 pm

Hi Furqan,

I'm sorry for the late reply but I have missed your comment somehow, my apologies.

I'm sorry to hear your suffering from PPP.

During my healing process I did not have a "diet plan" as such. I just removed all the things that were bad for me and added things that would improve my immune system such as real food (not processed) vitamin supplements etc. I highly recommend you watch some of the really good documentaries on Netflix such as Fat, sick and Nearly Dead, Food Matters, Forks over knives etc... to get inspired.

Smoking is not the cause of PPP nor the trigger even though smokers are at a higher risk receiving this disease (I write about this in my book).

Åsa

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Paula Dunbar
5/19/2018 01:58:01 am

Im recently diagnosed with pp but they first thought it was dyshidroctic eczema but now on anti fungal creams and tablets so i will let u know

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Well Healed - Åsa link
5/20/2018 07:19:29 pm

Hi Paula,

I'm sorry to hear you've been diagnosed with PPP, but at least now you know what you're suffering from. I'm interested how come your doctor prescribes you antifungal cream? PPP is not a fungal disease. I personally did not have any success with any creams or lotions. I found that creams can help to soften the outbreak areas for a while, but only for a short time until next outbreak. But do let me know how you are getting on and if you see any progress and healing.
All the best,
Åsa

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Mona
3/25/2019 08:59:56 pm

Hello Åsa.
I've suffered from PPP for about two years. Somehow i got the idea that it actually were caused from yeast/candida in the gut, and i got my doc to give me anti-fungal tablets for some few weeks. He wasn't any willing to give me for a longer treatment, not even when i told him a longer treatment should be tried, because stopping to soon could make it all come back, and then maybe even stronger.

I then had PPP on my hands for a year, tried "everything", including anti-fungal cream on my palms, but with no effect. But when the doc gave me the receipt of anti-fungal tablets, the PPP disappeared in less than two days from my hands and i haven't got it back there. I used the anti-fungal tablets only for a week or two, then stopped.

But sadly, after som months, a got PPP again, now on the palms of the feet. I'm quite sure it would be cured, again, if i got more weeks of anti-fungal tablets. But i hope to be able to cure it naturally instead of eating tablets.

I've seen my way of living and eating has not been good for my health, and i think that has caused problems in the gut/candida overgrowth in the gut. Means that, just eating pills will just cure the symptoms, but the problems will come back soon as i stop eating pills, if i don't change my way of living/eating. The whole body need to be treated, not just the symptom, that is the PPP:

I've got you book and read it, and found very much good information i trying. I'm not any good to follow a diet, and i can't stop smoking, but i've stopped eating peanuts every day and drinking two glass of wine every day, and trying to totally avvoid sugar and saturated fat. And i'm eating quite much veggies and fruits. And at lest the PPP hasn't got worse. And i see that if i eat some sugar, i'll get an outbreak very quick after.

The reason i'm trying to avoid fat too, is from youtube where people tell they've been cured from candida when avoiding fat.
In addition to that, i will start eating sink, among other vitamin and minerals, to see if sink-deficiency may be the underlaying reason. I'll tell you later how that went out.

Saikiran
6/4/2018 09:27:06 pm

Im suffering from peeling of finger tips from 2 yrs im using clobetasol propionate and salicyclic acid cream.. but of no use .. later came to know by doctors that its palmapostular psoriaisis.. pls help

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Well-Healed Åsa link
6/19/2018 06:29:03 pm

Hi Saikiran,

Thank you for contacting me.

I'm sorry to hear you are sick.

What you need to do is to improve your immune system. The way to do that is to remove all the things in your life causing damage to yourself and add all the things that is good for you and your immune system. I recommend you have a look read through my blog post and blog comments to get some tips. In my book I write more in detail how the immune system works and what you need to do to heal.

I'm wishing health and the strength you need to heal.

Kind Regards,

Åsa

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Doreen link
7/31/2018 12:07:47 pm

Hi Asa!
Just received your book. I have a few questions... I’m going to do the gluten free and follow what “not” to eat for the 2 months you talk about in your book. Is it okay to eat sweet potatoes , avocados, green tea and , beans, for this 2 months?
So happy to find your book! I’ve been suffering with PPP since 2009. Hope to hear from you soon! Thank you!

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Åsa Well-Healed link
8/3/2018 08:56:38 pm

Hi Doreen, I sent you a PM but I repeat my reply here for other readers that might have the same questions:

Hi Doreen,

First of all I'm sorry to hear you suffered with PPP since 2009, that is a very long time. That means you've got PPP a year before I did.

To answer your question, Yes....sweet potatoes , avocados, green tea and beans are good for you, eat as much as you can/want :) but preferably drink red tea if you can. (Rooibos red tea)

Just get back to me if you have any more questions and I will try to respond as quickly as I can :)

All the best and luck during your healing process,

Kind Regards

Åsa

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MOLY RAPHAEL
8/2/2018 09:14:01 am

i am also suffering PPP . . pls. guide me what i need to do

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Åsa Well-Healed link
8/2/2018 09:46:53 am

Hi Moly,

I'm sorry to hear you are suffering with PPP.

For guidance, please have a read through my blog posts on this website. For a more in-depth knowledge how to heal naturally, I highly recommend you ordering my book. The link to the book is on the top of this page.

All the best,

Åsa

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Colleen M link
1/4/2019 10:39:30 pm

I have been diagnosed with PPP. The dermatologist prescribed Mometasone Furoate. USP 0.1%. What are you're thoughts on this drug. I have been using it on & off for 4 months but afraid of the side effects. Could you please send me link to you're book.

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Åsa WEll-Healed link
1/7/2019 03:38:29 pm

Hi Colleen,

Thanks for your comment,

I was prescribed a stronger glucocorticoids called Dermovat 0,5%. In my experience this cream did nothing to help or clear/sooth my outbreaks. I stopped using it after 6 weeks before I had any side effects.

My book is available on Amazon and other digital outlets. The below link will take you to my Amazon page where book is available to buy as adigital or as a hard copy.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Treat-PPP-Naturally-Palmoplantar/dp/1518879357

All the best,

Åsa

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Åsa Well-Healed
3/25/2019 09:25:28 pm

Hi Mona,

Thank you for your comment.

It defiantly sounds like your PPP is triggered by Candida. Like you write, please do stay off the sugar if you really want to treat the cause instead of the symptoms. No sweets, no sugary drinks, biscuits, ice cream etc... And preferably no alcohol during the healing period. And if you can try to stay off gluten too.

Please let me know how you get on!

Hang in there and stay strong and positive,

Åsa

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Mona
3/25/2019 10:39:32 pm

Thank you Åsa, for your reply. Yes, i'll try as best as i can, and let you know how it goes.

Just one question; Do i have to avoid fruit like banana that contain much sugar, or can i eat fruit in it's natural form/raw as long as i avoid all other kind of sugar ?

Best regards, Mona

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Åsa Well-Healed
3/26/2019 08:50:42 am

Hi Mona,

I would avoid really sweet fruit whilst you're having candida.

Bananas are actually really good for you (the good bacteria in the gut feeds on the starch) ......as long as they are green :)

https://www.mahayahealth.com/blogs/2018/2/25/cold-potatoes-and-green-bananas-for-your-guts

zakir ahmed
11/17/2019 03:59:21 pm

Hello Asa
Reading your blog and finding communities and forums with PPP has been a god send for me. I've had PPP for a few months and didn't even bother with it until the pustules starting to gather taking up more surface area on my left hand mainly and blotches on my right palm.

I have immediately stopped eating all processed foods and introduced more nutritious foods. As someone from the Indian Subcontinent our diet is generally very very poor.

I am using supplements as well to boost my immune system like zinc, vitamin D+K2. Black seed capsules and bathing in diluted apple cider vinegar, glass of 99.9% pure aloe vera drink and gut flora boosting vitamins.

It's only been a few days since I started doing this and I hope it helps to restore some balance and the spread of PPP.

Were you using any particular types of moisturisers on a daily basis that really helped you? I generally have dry skin anyway and still trying to figure out what might be best.

#freefromPPP

Kind regards

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Åsa link
11/21/2019 08:42:48 pm

Hi Zakir

Thank you for your comment and I'm sorry to hear your PPP is spreading 😢.

But good you're making changes to your diet, that's the first step and I'm sure you'll see improvements.

What I used to do to keep my foot and hand moisturised was:
1. Apply silver cream on to the outbreak areas
2. Having baths with Epsom salt (magnesium)
3. Putting on duoderm plasters (God sent)

#freefromPPP (I love the hashtag 😀)

Kind Regards

Åsa

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crystal
9/4/2020 04:25:09 pm

I am from the USA and I am struggling really hard . I've been diagnosed with a metal allergy and I believe I have PPP. I know it's rare but I can't find any cases in the US. I am having a terrible life since the condition occurred. I need someone to help me. I've lost jobs , friends ..it affects the way I think, feel, participate in life. I don't know how much more I can take. Please does anyone know of someone in the states that can help me?

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Åsa
9/4/2020 04:53:35 pm

Hi Crystal,
Please join our support group on Facebook for help and support.
We have many members from the US and the rest of the world who's in the same boat as you. It's a private members only group, just copy the link below and it will take you to the "join" page. You are very welcome to join. Kind Regards, Åsa
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PalmoplantarPustulosisSupport

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